Fostering Learning Through Interaction

Adsit (2011) provides tips for lectures that are engaging, informative and participatory.

Audience Engagement and Interactivity
Audience attention wanes after 12-20 minutes. Design your class sessions with “activity breaks” to allow your students to process, review and apply the material that you present.

You might:

Ask a question or pose a problem to be solved individually

Have students work in pairs or trios on a problem or discuss a question

Student Self-Evaluation of Discussion

Distribute these questions to participants and have them complete these. Discuss with participants whether you as the instructor will see the students’ responses. The questionnaires are to be completed anonymously.

What ideas, questions or information did I contribute to the discussion today?

How did I try to encourage another student to speak today?

What did I learn from the discussion today? (New information, a new understanding of something already covered, an idea to follow up after the discussion, etc.)

How did I make connections between what different people were saying today?

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The OpenLab is an open-source, digital platform designed to support teaching and learning at New York City College of Technology (NYCCT), and to promote student and faculty engagement in the intellectual and social life of the college community.